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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
OUR NEW POSTMASTER.

There will be no ground for diSSatiS-
faction with Mr.. CLEVELAND'S appoint
ment of new postmaster for this city.
Mr.. LEE is an old resident of st. Paul,
and well known to all our people. His
name has been prominently mentioned
in connection with the Office ever since
a Democratic administration came into
power, and it is reasonable to suppose
that if there had been any objections to
his appointment they would have been
made public by this time. The fact
that no one contested the place
with Mr.. LEE is evidence of
his popularity and universal
recognition of his qualification for the
Office. Mr.. LEE will enter upon the adj
miniStratiOn of his Office with the abso-
lutte confidence of our people i'll his
capacity TO discharge its onerouS duties,
and with their best wishes for his sue
cess.
1t is due to DR.. DAY, the retiring post
master, to say that the government
never had more efficient man in Its
postal service, and President CLEvE-
LAND did wise thing in permitting him
to serve out his full term. The st.
Paul pOstOffice is by no means a
Sinecure position. The laDOrs
and responsibilities are out of
all proportion to the salary.
For twelve years DR.. DAY has worked
earnestly and faithfully Ill perfecting
the work of his Office, and we are en-
tirely within the hounds of truth when
we say that no city in the Union has a
postoffice in which there is more
thorough system in the management of
its affairs than st. Paul And it is all
due to DR.. DAYS splendid executive
ability.
1t rarely occurs that there is more
unanimity in according to a retiring
official and his successor a tribute of re-
spect and an expression of confidence
than the people of st. Paul accord to DR..
DAY and Mr.. LEE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
MIR. RANDALL's PLEDGE.

1t is reported that Mr.. RANDALL has
given his pledge to his fellow Demo-
cratic members that if he is allowed to
retain his place on the ways ana means
committee OF the house he will not re-
sort to any obstructive tactics to defeat
any tariff bill that the committee may
recommend There probably is no
foundation for the report, except that
Mr.. RANDALL recognizes, as every SEN
sible man must, that the time has come
when man cannot consistently affiliate
with the Democratic party and at the
same time be an ObStructionist when
tariff reform measure is before congress.
Mr.. RANDALL is in the unfOrtu-
nate position of being Democratic
representative from Republican dis
trict. His duty to his constituents con-
flicts with his party loyalty. The best
that he can do under the circumstances
is to content himself with voting against
the tariff bill that the committee on
ways and means will report. When he
has done that he will have discharged
his duty to his constituents without
having given OffenSe to his party aSSOci-
ates. But the very moment he under
takes to lead in open opposition to
the Democratic tariff policy, or to
resort to strategy to defeat any
measure that the Democratic ma
jority may agree upon, then he
becomes the enemy of the Democratic
party and should be forced to take his
Mace in the Republican ranks. Mr.,
RANDALL is too wise a man not to
know his duty in the premises, and it
is unreasonable to suppose that he is
going to kick out Of traces or will
enter into positive conspiracy for the
overthrow of his party. Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND has forced tariff reform as the
one issue on which next years battle is
to be fought. If Mr.. RANDALL can't
stand with the Democrats on that plat
form, he will probably find it conyen-
lent to go to Europe for his health
during the coming summer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20

Gen. r. w. Johnson-Hon. Hans
Mattson in an interview in Saturdays
Dispatch puts the whole thing in nut
shell in the following lines: II believe
in the protection of home industries to
some extent, but as it is now the capt.
talists and monOpOlists are protected to
the detriment of agriculture and the
working classes. The agri-
cultural interests of the Northwest,
which have heretofore been passed un-
noticed, are demanding recognition.
The tariff must be revised, and if the
Republican party does not assist in
bringing it about it will go hard with
the party. 1t is an outrage that 60,000.-
600 people should be compelled to pay
duty on sugar amounting to $50, 000, 900
in order TO protect the sugar interests of
Louisiana. whose entire products do not
amount to over S10.OOO,O goo. 1t would be
bett + to substitute the Louisiana sugar
raiSerS and abolish the import taX.'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20

The voluntary retirement of Con-
gresham HOLMAN from the apprOpria-
ton committee is both an evil and 4
benefit. There is always disposition
on the part of certain members of con-
gress tO-secure appropriations for their
districts quite regardless of the neceS-
sity for expenditure, and solely on ac-
count of the popularity that would
thereby accrue to them.
BY a system of trading on the princi-
pie of ''yOu tickle me and I'll tickle
TOu," many items of that nature creep
ntO the appropriation bills which
should be kept out of them. Mr.. HoL-
NAN has always had keen eye for
little defects Of this kind, and his vigi-
ance has on many occasions prevented
he absolute waste of the public money.
Looked at in that light, Mr.. HoLMAN'S
retirement is to be regretted.
But on the other hand he has, in his
ambition to deserve the title watch
dog of the treasury" only too often OBJ
structed progress on the appropriation
bills, and indeed delayed the whole
course of legislation, through motives of
false economy. Directing in season and
ont of season, he has often tried the
patience of his fellow committeeman
by resolutely refusing his assent to ap-
preparations absolutely needful, but
yet which seemed to the Indiana states
man of the most perniciOuS character.
He played the part of an obstructiOnist,
sometimes to good and sometimes to bad
purpose, and nearly always with little
discrimination.
From the point of eXpediting public
business. therefore, the retirement of
MI HOLMAN to a less important COM
mittee is hardly to be deplOred.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
CLEANED IN ST. PAUL.
The Version Given by the Officials
of the Road,

Oh INC
The limited train on the st. Paul &
Duluth road, leaving st. Paul at 2:15 p.
m. yesterday, was ditched on Pickering
side track, 100 miles up the road at
$3.50 o'clock last evening. Engineer Will
lam Thomas was killed outright, and the
fireman, whose name is unknown, had
his hip diSlOcated. According to the
reports received by President Fisher.
none of the passengers were injured,
although all were badly shaken up and
some of them severely bruised by
the shock. The cause of the
accident was a misplaced switch, and
whether the switch was turned by ac-
cident or with malicious intent, the
authorities of the road do not
say. The train was running slowly at
the time. having just climbed to the top
of Pickering hill, one of the SteepeSt
grades on the line. 1t consisted
of the engine, combination bag
gage and smoking car and two coaches.
Only the engine, the combination car
and one coach were derailed. A
physician was on the train
and attended the wounded as
a special from Duluth. The main
only an hour and a half when
traffic was resumed as usual. The
nearest station to the place of the acct
dent is Barnum, two and one-half miles
distant.
Engineer Thomas was one of the old
est engineers on the road. He made his
home in st. Paul with his family, and
his SuperiOrS say he was good and re-
liable man in every way.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
A SOUTHERN CYCLONE
Causes Great Loss of Life and De.
StructiOn of Property.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Dec. ia Spe-
cial from Cove, Polk county, reports
that destructive cyclone visited Arm-
strong academy, Indian territory, Fort
Washita and Green at an early hour on
Saturday morning, causing great de-
StructiOn of property and loss of life.
The following are the casualties as far
as known:
FRENCH ADAMS, United States army,
A. B. q. LINCOLN, Washita, killed.
HENDERSON JACK, Green, killed.
PETER RESON, Green. killed.
Two children, names unknown, killed.
WILLIAM CONVICTION, Armstrong acad-
envy, both legs broken.
HENRY WAIT, Washita, arm and leg
broken.
Mrs. WAIT, Washita, arm broken
A terrific rumbling sound was heard
about O'Clock. 1t startled the few set
tiers from their sleep, only to awaken
them to the horror of impending death.
A heavy black cloud, funnel-shaped,
was seen in the distance and rapidly APP
preaching. When about mile north of
Fort WaShita it struck the ground, and
from this point south for miles the work
of ruin was continued. The cyclone
travelled at about the rate of mile a
minute. In an instant from the time it
struck the earth half the houses in Fort
Washita were in ruins. Light OuthOuses
and dwellings were picked up and made
into kindling wood by the fury of the
wind. Armstrong academy was not
greatly injured. but ranchers in the iu-
mediate neighborhoOd suffered greatly.
At Green, little hamlet six miles south
of Armstrong, the damage was very
heavy and many persons were injured.
Seventeen houses and a general store
were carried away bodily, while many
horses and cattle, within the territory
covered by the storm king. lay killed or
manned, The damage at this time can
not of course be estimated, as the full
extent of the storm is not known. The
two children killed at Green were car
ried about sixty yards by the wind and
dashed to the ground, mangled so as to
be almost unrecogniZable. Many cattle
and ether stock were also killed by
lightning. The storm only lasted about
six minutes at any one point.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
Chips From the Ties.

The general freight agents department of
the Chicago IL Northwestern has sent the fol
lowing circular to its agents: Owing to the
crowded condition of the Eastern lines, until
advised to the contrary you will discontinue
receiving carload freight except perishable
property when consigned i'll care of the fol
lowing roads at Chicago: Michigan Central
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Chicago
d. Grand Trunk. Baltimore d Ohio. Wabash
railway, Wabash, St Louis 4 Pacific, Louis
vile. New Albany d Chicago, Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne d Chicago, Chicago 4 Atlantic, Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois railways.
Passengers leaving st. Paul on the Mani
toba for Watertown or points between Ben
son and Watertown at 1880 a. m. and z 30
D. m. will have to wait at Benson from the
time of arrival till o'clock the following
morning on account of taking OIL the regular
passenger trains at Benson.
General Passenger Agent Fee, of the North
ern Pacific road, has gone to st. Louis to at
tend the meeting of the Transeontinental as
ISOLATION of the Western trunk lines.
A. B. Chamberlain, formerly city agent of
the Milwaukee &; st. Pau, has been appointed
city agent of the Burlington.
Twenty cars of cattle were shipped on
Sunday last from Big Sandy, Mont, on the
Manitoba road for Chicago.
The st. Paul d Duluth surveyors who are
reaching out for Omaha were at Albert Lea
last Saturday.
Assistant Manager Ainsley, of the ORTIZ
ern Pacific, returned from Bralnerd yester-
day morning.
The st. Paul & Minneapolis Passenger as
ISOLATION will meet i'll monthly session to-
day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
IN The RAIL WAY WORLD.
The City Of Sioux Falls in an Eestatic
Temperament
BECAUSE OF A NEW ROAD.
The Railroad Commissioners Trying to
Make the Northern Pacific Re-
duce Its Rates.
Special to the Globe.

Speclal 10 the GiODe.
SIOUX FALLS, OAK, Dec. 19.-Sioux
Falls is happy city tonight. Six
months ago the Illinois Central was
speculation; tonight it is fact, the
last spike having been driven at 10
o'clock. The tracklayers worked to-day
through stormi almost blizzard, and
into the night. When the track was
down Mayor Norton, the city council
and many leading citizens representing
the city, and Supt. M. Gilleas and
officers of the road representing the
road, with the aid of warm furS and
electric lights, drove the golden spike
which marks the completion OF the
road. After this ceremony the visitors
were conducted to the Halcyon, where
an elegant supper was served. Gov. l..
K. Church arrived at 1905. He was
met at the depot by the mayor, citizens
and band and escorted also to the Hal
cyon, where he was given a right,
royal Sioux Falls welcome.
The following were the guests
of the city: Gov. l.. K. Church, E. L
Jeffrey, general manager of the Illinois
Central; Horace Tucker. general freight
agent; A. III. Hanson, general paSsen-
ger agent; j. E. King, private secretary
of the general manager; George M. Nix,
travelling freight agent; j. F. Merry,
general Western passenger agent; Nj.
Gilleas, general Superintendent of the
Iowa lines; Fla. Hill, general engineer;
John Sullivan. rOadmaSter; E. Wise,
bridge supervisor; G. X. Dickson. train
master; ID. G.. Rice, assistant engineer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
Austria,s Prenarations.

VIENNA. Dec. 19.-Saturday evening
the bourse wound up in sudden rout.
Securities of all kinds were recklessly
thrown on the market. 1t is estimated
that on Friday and Saturday 100000, 900
florins were lost. 1t is stated that at
Mondays council resolutions will be
proposed to place 25.O00.00O forms at
the disposal of the war minister to build
100000 huts in Galicia, and for the i'm
mediate purchase of uniforms and ac-
cOutermentS for the landwehr and the
last class of the reserves. A widespread
outbreak of cattle disease is reported in
Poland. This is regarded as sure sign
of large arrivals of beasts from the in
terrier for military provisioning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
THE SCENERY.

The scenery was superbly effective in
every act, but the climax was the scene
descriptive of the burning of Rome. At
first a red tinge lights up the sky, which
gradually becomes stronger until fork
of flame appears in the background.
Then the red light deepens
up, and the cOnfagration is raging in
its terrible fury, licking up massive
buildings in its pathway. The scene is
one of such horrible splendOr and in
tense realism that an audience really
hangs between the fascination to see
the completing work of the deyOuring
element and the impulse to get up ana
fly from its approach.
The orchestra was immense, the cos
tuning brilliant. and in every respect
the production of Nero" was in keep
ing with the promises OF Manager
Locke.
Fursch-Madi wasn't on the list, but
she never will be missed as long as
Juch sings her roles.
Tonight Wagner's ''Flying Dutch
man. will be sung. After seeing Nero"
last night we are prepared to
see Manager Locke fulfill all
his promises in regard to the
brilliant scenic and spectacular part of
this opera. which are said to be of the
most wonderful description, particu-
larly as respects the use of electricity
in the great storm scenes of the first
and second acts. The entry of the ships
into port with the fury of the
hurricane is said to be grandly realistic.
Bertha PierSOn, the dramatic soprano
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
TO DO AWAY WITH PICKETS
Drawbaugh Has a New Electrical
Machine for Detecting the APP
proach of Armies.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 19.-Daniel
Drawbaugh, the supposed inventor of
the telephone, is now at work on an in
vention by which the presence of large
bodies of men on land and ships on the
ocean can be detected. 1t is an electri-
cal machine, and Drawbaugh claims
that general with this new contrivance
in his tent can tell by its peculiar mo-
ton if the enemy is near and prepare
to give him warm reception. The
commander of war vessel can also tell
the approach of any vessel, hostile or
otherwise, the resistance of the water
on the approaching vessel causing suffi-
cient friction to establish current that
will cause the indicator to sound
the alarm. Drawbaugh refers to
his latest discovery as an ''Elec-
trical paradox. 1t hasn't any name yet,
although portion of it has already
been patented and the entire arrange
ment has been sent to this city for in
spection. The instrument consists of
what Mr.. Drawbaugh calls micrOphOne
and registering dial. The microphOne
is placed in hollow iron tube, which is
Theoretically sealed. The microphone,
when it is to be used on land, is at
tached to an iron screw with very wide
Unread, ny lHtdAS VI WHICH IL ID Suuh
firmly into the earth. An insulated
wire, which may be buried or carried
over tree tops as the emergency may ne
cessitate, connects with galyanic bat
terry and the registering dial, which
may be placed miles away. The practical
working of the instrument is intended
to do away almost entirely with the
picket lines of an army. To give an in
stance, commanding officer may sit in
his tent supplied with registering dial
and keep Informed of the approach of
large body Of troops from any direction
by proper distribution of the stakes
containing the Theoretically sealed mi
crophones, dozen of which may be
used as the occasion demands. The in
slant the air or earth vibrations caused
by the tramp of feet or the sound of
voices affect the microphone, that in
slant the effect is shown on the face of
the dial by the turning of the needle
from the zero point.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
ST. JOHN ROAsTs BLAINE
For His Views on Taxing Tobacco
and Liquor.

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-James G. Blaine
received special attention from Prohibi-
ZIONIST ex-Gov. John p. st. John i'll
Cooper Union yesterday. Mr.. st. John
addressed the Manhattan Temperance
association. "The greatest men are led
some time to make the greatest blum
ders," said Mr.. st. John. If so, the
reputation of James Il. Blaine for great
ness has been thoroughly established by
the egregious blunders he has made.
His latest blunder appears in an inter-
view published in the Tribune, his per-
sonal organ, where he advocates the
repeal of the tax on tobacco.
on the ground that millions of
men use tobacco, and therefore it
is necessity. ''Mr. Blaine," continued
the speaker, 'Opposes the removal OF
the tax on the liql 0 traffic because it
would destroy h excellent high
license laws som o the states have.
Thank God, we HI; " smoked him out on
that" Mr. st. il I'M continued: 1.-The
sooner the high tic 3nse laws are de-
stroyed the better. This statesman
says he opposes al clifton OF the whisky
tax, because its consumption would
thereby be incres I'd. Then does not
but Mr.. Blaine AYERS tobacco is neceS-
sity. because, as he says, 95 out of 100
use the weed. If there was the same
proportion of rum drinkers, and gam
blers, and blaSrhemerS, would rum,
swearing and gambling-hOuses be ne
cessitieS too? We appeal to our boys
to throw away the accursed and health
destroying cigarette. He replies 1t IS
DeceSSityo
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
SHERMAN'S CHEERFULNEss.

JOHN SHERMAN has a buoyant nat
ure. Nothing depresSes him. When
Chicago was selected as the place for
holding the Republican convention Mr..
SHERMAN laughed over it and told his
friends that it was all right-he had
been to Chicago last summer, and there
was not really such BLAINE boom in
that locality as people generally sup
posed. And now that the Republican
clubs have completed an organization
Mr.. SHERMAN is downright hilarious
over the result. He points with pride
to the fact that a SHERMAN
man was made temporary chair
man of the convention and
that when his own maine was mentioned
at least forty-two of the delegates
clapped their hands and shouted, 'Hur-
rah for SHERMANw The buoyant Mr..
SHERMAN CONSTITUTES all this into mean
ing that he is riding into The preSiden-
tial nomination Oh popular wave. He
shuts his eyes to the fact that, while AZ
delegates were lisping his name, 242
others were shouting themselves hoarse
in. praise of JAMES e. BLAINE. He
fails to remember that, while his friends
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
PRISON ENTERTAINMENTS.
Objections Urged Against Hold
ing Them on Sunday---General
StiIIW alter News.

ing Inem on SunUay---Oeuefd
Saltwater News.
There has been much said by differ
ent parties relative to the entertain
ments given by various troupS at the
prison, who chance to remain in this
city over Sunday. The majority are of
the opinion that treat now and then
is good for the boys confined behind
the bars, as it tends to elevate them and
turn their minds to more pleasant
themes. Last night the evening paper
of this city produced an article to which
the writer did not sign his name. which,
among other things, contained the fol-
lowing fling: do you suppose a the
atrical company could be induced to
play to them (the poor for merely the
honor? Oh no, but they can be induced
to entertain mob of thieves,
murderers, outragers of woman's honor
and all tine disreputable characters in
the criminal calender" This, and lot
more in similar strain. is the body of the
article. There is much said i'll favor OF
the prisoners. and the general senti--
ment seems to be entirely i'll favor of
letting the ''bOys" enjoy good thing
once and a while, and not be ground
down simply because it is the wish of
evening paper is receiving considerable
attention, and those who speak of it
commend the action of those entrusted
with the charge of the prison, and do
not uphold any such theories as are ad-
vanced by the writer.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Newton Beers at the conclusion of the
cOmpany'S entertainment at the prison
on Sunday made few brief remarks
relative to the pleasure he had, with his
company, experienced in entertaining
his hearers, and in conclusion said he
did not want to lecture but would only
say ''Remember, boys. there IS always
room at the top.'
The firemen are making extensive
preparations for grand inaugural ball
at the new engine house on Thursday
evening. A large number of tickets
have already been sold and everything
bids fair for an excellent gathering and
a marked success.
Work on the natural gas find goes
steadily on near the levee. Already
twenty-siX-foot pipe has been sunk and
the quality and quantity of gas that
forces its way up the narrow tube
proves most excellent and voluminOus.
Mrs. c. L. Easton will entertain the
Ascension church guild at her resi-
dence on South Third street tomorrow
evening. A cordial invitation is eX-
tended to all. Dancing will be the
principal evenings enjoyment.
Bills are out announcing that the
Lakeland Dramatic company will rem
der "IngOmar' at their village Monday
evening, Jan. 2, 1888.
Jan. is the day now set for the new
manager of the Sawyer house to take
possession.
Mrs C. D. Gish leaves for months
visit with her parents in Iowa to-
morrow.
The second annual ball of the Land
league takes place Tuesday evening,
Dec. q.
Martha Rump died at the city hospital
Sunday afternoon, aged about sixteen
years.
Rev. w. II. Albright's little daughter
is still very i'll with lung fever.